[Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST

[J. Forster]

No, I don't think so.

Suppose someone does nort want to do the project-->  no impact

or

Suppose someone does want to do the project, and:

 He has a ham hacked unit available--> no impact
 He does not have a pre-hacked unit--> an irreplaceable unhacked unit gets
destroyed.

I don't see how creating a demand for the units helps preserve the
endangered pool of unhacked units.

-John

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> Mods... not "miss" - that was my not-so-smart phone meddling.
>
> Bry Carling
>
> Sent from myTouch 4G, please excuse my brevity.
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> From: "bcarling at cfl.rr.com" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
> To: <jfor at quikus.com>, "Ian Wilson" <ianmwilson73 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST
> Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 12:33 pm
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> But it may be preferable to see Ian's kind of practical miss rather than
> dumpsterizing the things.
>
> Bry Carling
>
> Sent from myTouch 4G, please excuse my brevity.
>
>
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> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
> To: "Ian Wilson" <ianmwilson73 at gmail.com>
> Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST
> Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 12:08 pm
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>
> Thanks.
>
> I don't care a whit what happens to gear that has already been ham-hacked,
> but such articles do lead to the destruction of irreplacable, unhacked
> gear, which is a tragedy.
>
> -John
>
> ================
>
>> The QST article shows a BC-221 being used to house - and provide tuning
>> for
>> -
>> a SWL-40.
>>
>> I am considering what to do with my excess of LM (1) and BC-221 (2) that
>> have
>> been lightly modified, have no tuning books, and work flawlessly apart
>> from
>> scratchy
>> switches and pots. One plan is to build a decent heterodyne VFO. That
>> way
>> the
>> very nice but valueless (in both financial and historical terms) units
>> will
>> be put to
>> some use.
>>
>> 73, ian K3IMW
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